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Transgender inmate on Missouri's death row asks for mercy 12/14/2022 07:37pm • COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) ��� The first openly transgender woman set to be executed in the U.S. is asking Missouri's governor for mercy, citing mental health issues. Lawyers for Amber McLaughlin, now 49, on Monday asked Republican Gov. Mike Parson to spare her. McLaughlin was convicted of killing 45-year 7 Tax Rules to Know if You Give or Receive Cash 12/14/2022 07:00pm • Whether you receive cash tips as part of your job in the gig economy or are giving a cash gift to a relative, you need to know when and how to report that money to the IRS. There are different rules and reporting requirements depending on whether cash is income or a gift, how much money changes hand Why Food Labels Don't Improve Health 12/14/2022 07:00pm • I can vaguely remember how it felt to be my 21-year-old, energetic, wide-eyed self the year I started graduate school. I was beginning a doctoral program focused on health and developmental psychology and I was going to change the world. I was sure that I could do research that would ultimately help Strategies to Increase Reading Comprehension 12/14/2022 07:00pm • Teaching a child to decode words is a critical early step in reading instruction. But just because children can read words doesn't mean they understand them. "Reading comprehension, in its simplest form, is the ability to make meaning of what you are reading," says Carly Shuler, co-founder and co-CE The ACA 'Family Glitch' Rule Change: What Advisors Need to Know 12/14/2022 07:00pm • Even financial advisors and planners who don't sell insurance need some understanding of the various life and health insurance products, and how they affect clients' success metrics. While advisory clients often receive health insurance through employers or Medicare and supplemental insurance, some Ovechkin at 800 now chasing Howe for 2nd on NHL goals list 12/14/2022 06:29pm • WASHINGTON (AP) ��� Alex Ovechkin becoming just the third NHL player with 800 goals has put him on the verge taking his next big step in hockey history. Ovechkin is just two goals from passing Gordie Howe for second on the career list. ���Mr. Hockey��� is the only player between Ovechkin and Wayne G Man who killed 2 women in Pennsylvania charged in Michigan 12/14/2022 05:54pm • BATTLE CREEK, Mich. (AP) ��� A man who pleaded guilty to killing two women in Pennsylvania was extradited to Michigan to face a first-degree murder charge in the slaying of a pregnant woman who disappeared more than 17 years ago. Harold David Haulman III was charged Wednesday in Calhoun County Distr Ukraine: Russian strikes thwarted, wreckage hits buildings 12/14/2022 05:21pm • KYIV, Ukraine (AP) ��� Ukrainian authorities said they thwarted a Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region Wednesday as their air defense system destroyed 13 explosive-laden drones, although wreckage damaged five buildings, without causing casualties. The attempted strikes underlined how vu 16-year-old charged in Suitland HS shooting 12/14/2022 03:31pm • A 16-year-old student has been charged as an adult in connection with last Thursday���s shooting of a student outside Suitland High School. Prince George���s County police said Wednesday the teen turned himself in on Tuesday. They also said that a 14-year-old who was initially arrested in that sh AIG unit that had big role in 2008 crisis nears official end 12/14/2022 01:37pm • NEW YORK (AP) ��� A unit of American International Group that played an outsized role in the 2008 global financial crises is nearing its official end. AIG said Wednesday in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its Financial Products unit has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Massachusetts governor abandons pardons in sex abuse case 12/14/2022 01:17pm • BOSTON (AP) ��� Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker has withdrawn his request seeking pardons for two individuals at the center of one the nation���s most notorious sexual abuse trials of the 1980s. Lt. Gov. Karyn Polito said Wednesday that there didn't appear to be enough support on the eight member Grand Rapids police face 2 more discrimination charges 12/14/2022 12:44pm • Michigan's civil rights watchdog announced two charges of discrimination against the Grand Rapids Police Department on Wednesday, further heightening scrutiny of the department following an officer's killing of a Black motorist in April. The charges came in response to complaints filed with the Mich Ga. secretary of state wants to end general election runoffs 12/14/2022 11:31am • ATLANTA (AP) ��� Georgia's top elections official urged lawmakers on Wednesday to end general election runoffs ��� this month's bitter Senate contest was the latest example ��� but offered no specific proposals, saying there is a ���wide range of options.��� The push by Republican Secretary of State Stephen 'tWitch' Boss, DJ for 'Ellen DeGeneres Show,' dead at 40 12/14/2022 10:28am • Stephen "tWitch" Boss, the amiable DJ for "Ellen DeGeneres Show" and dancer who rose to fame on "So You Think You Can Dance," has died, his wife, fellow dancer Allison Holker Boss, confirmed in a statement to CNN.He was 40."It is with the heaviest of hearts that I have to share my husband Stephen ha Pedestrian bridge to be built near Prince William Co. school where students were killed crossing highway 12/14/2022 10:26am • A pedestrian bridge will be built over U.S. Route 15 in Haymarket, Virginia, near Battlefield High School ��� a dangerous crossing where two Prince William County students were killed crossing the highway in 2021. The Prince William Board of County Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to appropr